Meshing green urban design with housing projects, <a href="http://www.offarchitecture.com" target="_blank">Off Architecture</a>’s apartment complex designed for Anglet, France features sweeping greenery on its sloping roofs. Conceived in partnership with <a href="http://inhabitat.com/green-roofed-high-school-in-france-by-off-architecture/" target="_blank">Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture</a>, the buildings gently step down, <a href="http://inhabitat.com/foster-partners-energy-efficient-mclaren-production-centre-is-partially-submerged-in-a-green-hill/" target="_blank">joining a natural hill</a> and creating an artificial meadow on top of the buildings. The new community is designed to revolve around green space and urban farming, and natural flora and fauna are planned to cover every inch of the plot.

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OFF Architecture Anglet Green Roof

The two differing complexes meet each other in the heavily planted fields that surround them.

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OFF Architecture, Anglet Green Roof

One building seems to rise out of the ground in steps that vary in height from two to four stories.

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OFF Architecture, Anglet Green Roof

The thickly planted grass roof extends the park's green area - residents can ascend the roof and use it as additional yard space.

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OFF Architecture, Anglet Green Roof

This building has a charming look that resembles overgrown ruins - a purposeful vision of man versus nature, with nature in the lead.

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OFF Architecture, Anglet Green Roof

Each of the levels also has heavily planted balconies that lend cohesion to the structure, which sprawls in waves like a rolling hill.

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OFF Architecture, Anglet Green Roof

The second building lacks the immense green roofs of the first, but it's still focused around nature and lush vegetation.

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OFF Architecture Anglet Green Roof

Meshing green urban design with housing projects, Off Architecture’s apartment complex designed for Anglet, France features sweeping greenery on its sloping roofs. Conceived in partnership with Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture, the buildings gently step down, joining a natural hill and creating an artificial meadow on top of the buildings. The new community is designed to revolve around green space and urban farming, and natural flora and fauna are planned to cover every inch of the plot.